Measuring device



NOV. 22, 1938. l Q ORVOLD 2,137,583

MEASURING DEVICE Filed June .29, 1936 Il) l tir 9m-M M w 'TTRNEXPatented Nov. 22, 1938 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFlCE 2 Claims.

My invention relates to measuring devices of the class designedparticularly for use by tailors for quickly and accurately obtaining thevarious necessary dimensions for properly making suits or othergarments.

The main object of this invention is to provide a measuring device ofsimple yet highly efficient construction, and further to improve andsimplify the measuring device for which a U. S. Patent No. 1,271,486,was issued to me July 2, 1918.

In the accompanying drawing:-

Fig. 1 is a side elevation of my improved measuring device as applied toobtain the measure from a coat collar to the shoulder blade.

Fig. 2 is an elevation of the device as used in combination with aiiexible tape to determine the length of a sleeve.

Fig. 3 is a longitudinal vertical section in enlarged scale of Fig. 2 ason line 3 3 of the latter gure.

Fig. 4 is a rear view of the shoulder and head portion of a person withone raised shoulder, two of my devices being shown in operativepositions to obtain measures from collar to right and left shouldertips.

Fig. 5 is a right side View of a model on which are indicated variousdimensions of distances required by a tailer for making a suit and whichmeasures are easily attained with my device.

Referring to the drawing by reference numerals, like parts beingdesignated by corresponding characters in the several views, my devicecomprises an elongated flat bar 6, preferably of wood and to the top endof which is rigidly fixed in common plane with the bar a protractordesignated 1 as a whole and at the lower end is xed a metal foot piece 8extending at right angles from one side a distance corresponding to theouter extremity of the protractor.

The protractor is of the open type and has a closing cross bar 1Acomprising the top end of the device and at the inner central part ofwhich as at 9 is a bearing for a weighted and suspended indicator lingerl0 the point of which is in proximity to the arcuate face of theprotractor on which face is provided degree marks Il. Said degree marksincrease progressively from 0 at a point on the longitudinal center lineof the bar 6 to 45 degrees thence decreasing to 0 at each side of saidcenter line on a transverse line through. the bearing 9 (see Fig. l.)

From the center 9 to the outer extremity of the protractor 6 ispreferably 31/4 inches, in a preferred size of the device, and likewisethe length of the foot piece 8 is 31A inches from the center line.Assuming that bar 6 is 11/2 inches wide the total length of the footwill be 4 inches said 4 inches and fractions thereof may be indicated onthe outer edge of the foot piece, as best shown in Figs. 1 and 2. 5

On the bar 6 is slidably and frictionally retained a metal clamp i2 witha preferably square opening in each side except a pair of oppositeinwardly directed pointers IZP which facilitate reading of the gures onthe flat bar. Said iigures read progressively downward at one edge andupward at the other edge on each side of the bar and indicate in inchesand fractions the various measurements as hereinafter fully set forth.

At the inner side of the clamp l2 is provided a pivot bearing 12B forpivotally retaining an elongated at wing member I3 normally in commonplane with the bar 6 and parallel thereto with its Youter edge inalinernent between the extremities of the protractor and Ythe foo-tpiece 8 (see Fig. 2).

The wing member I3 is capable of being turned to a position in a planeat right angles to the main bar B, as in Figs. 1 and Li, for the purposeof obtaining various measurements as from a shoulder .blade MB of a coati4 to the base of the collar MC in Fig. 1. In this particular readingthe numeral 3 at the inner edge of bar 8 is read and indicated by theright hand pointer l2? of the clamp i2, which means that 8 inches is thedistance between said two points and one of the necessary measures to berecorded to make a suit. Simultaneously the angle or slope between thetwo points thus contacted is indicated in the protractor by the iingeror pointer l0, which` for example in Fig. 1 reads 30 degrees, the slopeor angularity of the plane between the two contact points being 30degrees from Vertical.

In Fig. 4 two shoulder construction readings 40 are shown, the rightshoulder normal and the left shoulder deformed and projecting upwardly.The measuring device is placed on the right shoulder in the same manneras in Fig. 1 with the inside and outer corner of the protractor 45placed at the bottom of collar |4C and the wing bar i3 located tocontact at tip of shoulder read*- ing of distance being made in samemanner as described for application shown in Fig. 1.

For the raised left shoulder (Fig. 4) the oper- 50 ator reverses themeasuring device using the toe end of the ioot piece 8 to Contact thelower collar line and the wing bar I3 is located to contact the tip ofthe shoulder, the operator in this case reading the resulting measure onthe side of the 55 main bar opposite from the foot piece 8 andsimultaneously getting the angle of the shoulder slope.

In Figs. 2 and 3, l5 designates a standard type of tailors tape measureprovided at its end with a snap-button socket ISS adapted to beconnected or snapped on a fixed corresponding button or stud I6 on thecross bar 1A and adjacent its pivot 9.

Thus with a flexible tape attached at the top part of my device thelatter may be placed or positioned vertically up under the arm pit,designated by dotted line I1 in Fig. 2, and the device held in placewhile the tape is extended downwardly along the inner side of the arm todetermine length of sleeve required. VIS, in dotted lines in Fig. 2,designates the sleeve and its length indicated as 21 inches on the tape,Obviously this feature is useful for determining length of trouser legsfrom` crotch to lower end of pant leg as between lines d-d in Fig. 5.

Besides the measurements already described and referring to Fig. 5particularly it will be readily understood that further readings andrecordings thereof for making a suit will include measuring of variousother distances as between lines a-CL, b-b, b-b, 1 -c, d-d etc., etc.

The construction of clamp l2 and the wing bar I3 are not herein claimedspecifically being preferably of the construction revealed in my patentherein specified. However the herein described device comprises agreatly simplied construction over my patented device and embodying asingle protractor a single main measuring bar with the foot piece all ina new and useful combination and with the Wing bar, all measurementsobtainable with' my previous device being as easily or more easilyobtained with this simplied device.

Modifications within the scope of the above description and thefollowing claims may be made without departing from the scope and spiritof my invention.

I claim:

1. A measuring device of the class described comprising an elongatedflat bar, a iixed foot piece the toe end of which comprises a contactpiece, said foot piece extending at right angles from its lower end, aprotractor iixed at the upper end of said bar in common plane with thebar and foot piece, the center of said protractor on the centerline ofthe bar extended, an indicator nger suspended pivotally from said centerpoint and directed toward the bar, a Wing member comprising a movablecontact piece slidably mounted on the bar, said bar having graduatedmeasure markings indicating exact distances from either end of themeasuring device between said contact part of the Wing member and thetoe of the foot piece and the outer extremity of the protractor.

2. A measuring device comprising a single elongated flat bar pro-videdwith two rows of graduated measure marks` in opposite directions at itstwo edges, a clamp slidably mounted on said bai' and a straight edgerotatably mounted in said clamp and adapted to be set selectively inparallel relation to the main bar or transversely thereof, a protractorfixed at one end and concentric of said main bar and in common planetherewith, an indicator finger suspended from a point on a center lineof the main bar extended and in the center oi said protractor its pointor free end normally in proximity to the graduated markings at the edgeof theprotractor, said protractor closed by a cross bar transversely ofthe main bar and a foot piece integral with and extending at rightangles from the opposite end of the bar, the outer end of said footpiece, the outer extremity of the protractor on the same side of themain bar and the outer edge of the straight edge all in a common planeand equidistant from the center line of the main bar.

OLUF L. ORVOLD.

